Hi!

 

what i'm trying to do is replace the generic GuiChat with my own "VisualizationGuiChat" which extends GuiScreen. my class is an exact copy of GuiChat but with my own modifications.

 

now for making the game use my Gui i've put this into my main mod file (Note i'm on minecraft version 1.6.4)

 

@ForgeSubscribe
public void onOpenGuiScreen(GuiOpenEvent event)
{		
if(!(event.gui instanceof VisualizationGuiChat) && event.gui instanceof GuiChat)
{		
	String s = "";

	try 
	{
		s = readPrivateClassString("defaultInputFieldText", event.gui);
	} 
	catch (Exception e) 
	{
		System.out.println("Failed to get defaultInputFieldText");		
	}			
	//mc.displayGuiScreen(null);//clear the current screen
	mc.thePlayer.closeScreen();
	mc.displayGuiScreen(new VisualizationGuiChat(s));
}	
}

 

my GUI initializes and stuff (tested through breakpointing) however my keyTyped event never fires, it is instead fired in GuiChat, which then tells me that GuiChat was never closed as per my instruction here:

 mc.thePlayer.closeScreen(); 

before opening my one.

 

this is probably a messy way to go about it, though i'm unsure if forge's key events override the ones in Minecraft.java.. if so i could just slave the chat key to my own GUI and just be done with it but yeah.. what's stopping GuiChat from closing?

You are simply not using the event like you are supposed to.

Read GuiOpenEvent.